There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home

Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by ChuckNorris89 on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:39AM (#29590866)

Or...you can take all that time and energy you'd invest building this complex Rube Goldberg machine that just proves you're present 9-5, and instead, invest it in finding a job that's not so toxic.

Seems more healthy for your mental wellbeing in the long run, as toxic policies in workplaces rarely come alone but tend to come sequentially one after another as time goes on if the terror managers don't change or enough employee don't jump ship simultaneously to trigger a management change.

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by albrewer on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:22AM (#29594296)

> [...] instead, invest it in finding a job that's not so toxic.

Nobody's saying they're not doing that. Depending on life circumstances and where you live, it can take months to find a new job that's actually better than the one you're in, even when actively looking.

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by xeromal on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:06AM (#29594052)

You seem to take this seriously but putting something together like this is exactly what makes programming/engineering fun. lol. I love putting together weird crap like this.

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by justinlloyd on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:34PM (#29597270)

I build a lot of things that like that. From putting a space invaders game on my digital resume website, to an autonomous R/C car that can evade a pursuing dog that jinks left and right like a rabbit, to an internet controlled robot arm used as a cat toy, to a touch screen cat toy that exhibits predator/prey response from the feline interacting with it that results in a paper about improper toe bean rejection because there are not enough science papers written about cats interacting with touch screens, to figuring out which way up a piece of material has been loaded in to a CNC, to "open the pod bay doors" that will open my garage door, to an interactive smart home screen that monitors where my cats, phone, wallet and amazon packages are (and also displays the weather), to a multi-camera streaming setup that is voice activated "Hey producer, roll VT" that talks to me like Cortana from Halo, to a computer vision system for recognizing electronic components and sorting them into appropriate piles, to a remote operated cat litter cleaning robot arm, to cataloguing every book read, science paper digested, class attended, movie watched and album listened too since 1984. And then there is the weird stuff.

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by detaro on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:42AM (#29590897)

Sure, but I'd apply that at the point of the original posters setup already.

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by justinlloyd on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:01PM (#29596753)

You've assumed an awful lot about me based on a few flippant comments I've made on social media. Perhaps that time would be better spent finding a different outlet for your frustration. It appears that these days people on HN jump to the "find another job" solution as fast as people on Reddit jump to the "get divorced" solution.

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